Data.Journalism! Conference & Workshops, Vienna, 14 -15 June 2012

fjum and the European Journalism Centre are pleased to invite journalists and media professionals to a two-day data journalism event where they can learn from international experts how to get started with data journalism and develop the skills they need to succeed in the field.

Registration is closed.Programme

Day 1/June 14th, 9 am – 6 pm: The conference
This series of talks is aimed at journalists and decision makers in newsrooms, heads of sections or editors-in-chief, who want to get a sense of what data journalism can do for their newsroom, what the operation involves and if it makes sense for their newsroom to start a data journalism operation.Topics

Philip Meyer, Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (via Skype)

Bella Hurrell, Specials Editor BBC News website

Alastair Dant, lead interactive technologist, The Guardian

Sascha Venohr, development editor and journalist, Zeit Online

Helen Darbishire, Executive Director, Access Info Europe

Eva Linsinger, profil

Josef Barth, Founder of the Transparency-Watchblog Amtsgeheimnis.at / PUBLIC MATTERS

Thomas Jöchler, Head of project development wien.at Online

Day 1 will end with a networking session. The aim of this session is to provide the opportunity for people from several communities: journalists, civic-minded developers, information designers, data visualisation experts, statisticians and data scientists to meet, exchange ideas and build connections between their communities.

Day 2/June 15th, 8.30 am – 6 pm: The workshops
This series of workshops is aimed at journalists who want to develop the skills that will help them start a career in data journalism. The workshops cover all the major steps of the data journalism workflow, from getting data to analysing it, understanding it and presenting it to your public. Please note that the workshops are entry to intermediate level. Limited seats available.

Topics

Data literacy: Understanding data and how to use it

Data collection: An introduction to scraping

Data analysis: Understanding data by using Google spreadsheet

Data visualisation: An overview of the best existing tools and how to use them